1. Renaissance DBQ
Visual Documents

2. Document A: Art Madonna Enthroned Between Two Angels
By: Duccio di Buoninsegna
During the Middle Ages, most paintings had a religious subject matter.
Mona Lisa
By: Leonardo da Vinci
During the Renaissance, paintings had a wide variety of subject matters.

3. Document B: Man’s Inner Nature
“Ye [man] think sin in the beginning full sweet,
Which in the end causeth thy soul to weep,
When the body lieth in clay.
Here shall you see how fellowship and jollity,
Both strength, pleasure, and beauty,
Will fade from thee as flower in May.
For ye shall hear, how our Heaven-King
Calleth Everyman to a general reckoning:
Give audience, and hear what he doth say.”
Source: excerpt from an English play called Everyman, written by an unknown author in 1485.
Source: excerpt from Act II, Scene II of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, 1601.
“What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals!

4. Document C: Man’s Place in the Universe
Geocentric Universe:
Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 AD)
Heliocentric Universe:
Nicolaus Copernicus (c AD)

5. Document D: The Human Body
Woodcut called “Zodiac Man,”
from a book by Geman Astronomer Johann Reglomontanus, 1512.
Woodcut from the anatomy book “On the Makeup of the Human Body” by Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius, 1543.